I'll tell them that on bad mornings, it feels impossible to take pleasure in anything because I'm afraid it could be taken… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
People talk about the pain of writing, but very few people talk about the pleasure and satisfaction. — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery. — Maxim Gorky Copy Share Image
Remember anything you want that's valuable requires you to break through short-term pain in order to gain long-term pleasure. — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
The recollection of one upward hour Hath more in it to tranquilize and cheer The darkness of despondency, than years Of gayety… — James Gates Percival Copy Share Image
Years of happiness can be lost in the foolish gratification of a momentary desire for pleasure. — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
It was getting the results that made science worth doing; the accolades were a thin, secondary pleasure. — Gregory Benford Copy Share Image
There are few pleasures like really burrowing one's nose into sweet peas. — Angela Thirkell Copy Share Image
Life is often more a sweat than a pleasure but, paradoxically, it is the sweat that gives true meaning to all of… — Don Pendleton Copy Share Image
The greatest and noblest pleasure we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off… — Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor Copy Share Image
Then the writing became so fluid that I sometimes felt as if I were writing for the sheer pleasure of telling a… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Like all her friends, I miss her greatly...But...I am sure there is no case for lamentation...Virginia Woolf got through an immense amount… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
“Lust for possession and greed has ravaged the soul of humanity like a great cancer, metastasizing throughout society in the form of… — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
Metaphysics notwithstanding, I also insert myself in my fictions for no loftier purpose than to give me pleasure: to see myself performing… — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is a great matter. Art is an organ of human life,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Reading has always been the largest and most irreplaceable pleasure for Vincent; reading about other people's successes and failures, joys and sufferings… — Irving Stone Copy Share Image
“The Seven Social Sins are: Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce without morality. Science without humanity. Worship without… — Frederick Lewis Donaldson Copy Share Image
I have friends who are capable of writing a very rough draft and then going back and embroidering - they're sort of… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
Read from a distant star, the majuscule script of our earthly existence would perhaps lead to the conclusion that the earth was… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I love the chameleon nature of this business [acting]. I always have. Sometimes I'm not as recognizable as somebody else and I… — Ray Stevenson Copy Share Image
So he lent her books. After all, one of life's best pleasures is reading a book of perfect beauty; more pleasurable still… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Altruism is for those who can't endure their desires. There's a world as ambiguous as a moan, a pleasure moan our earnest… — Stephen Dunn Copy Share Image
Love is at the root of all healthy discipline. The desire to be loved is a powerful motivation for children to behave… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
I tried to think about these two issues very freely. With sex, I think I can manage with that. With death, this… — Pedro Almodovar Copy Share Image
![“I love the chameleon nature of this business [acting]. I always have. Sometimes I'm not as recognizable as somebody else and I may not have gotten a role, but for me, acting is not a competition. I've just kept my head down and kept working, and had the great pleasure of working with some amazing…” quote by Ray Stevenson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/57e/ray-stevenson-15916_acting_i-love-the-chameleon-nature-of-this-busi_80228.jpg)
